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The new standard brings a number of benefits to one of the web’s core technologies, such as faster page loads, longer-lived connections, more items arriving sooner and server push. One notable change is that HTTP requests will be 'cheaper' to make. The web community has often told developers to avoid adding too many HTTP requests to their pages, which lead to optimization techniques like code inlining or concatenation to reduce the requests. It also allows prioritisation of requests, letting more important requests complete more quickly, further improving performance.

It's been a long time coming, but YouTube has finally made the switch from Flash to HTML 5. You might not think it's a big deal, but it is.

Despite having long dominated web video and other interactive content, Flash has been under fire for years over performance and security issues. It doesn't work on Apple iDevices and mobile uses on other platforms are similarly restricted.

There are also security and performance issues. Steve Jobs onces said "We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash." and Symantec highlighted Flash for having one of the worst security records back in 2009.

We are all familiar with 'traditional' ransomware where a computer is encrypted and payment sought for decryption. A new trend on the market shows that criminals will now target your business website and database as well to get a ransom payment from you.

High-Tech Bridge discovered a very interesting case of a financial company website compromise: the website was out of service displaying a database error, while the website owner got an email asking for a ransom to "decrypt the database".

Hackers from the online group Lizard Squad have claimed responsibility for taking down social media sites Facebook, Instagram, dating mobile app Tinder, as well as AOL Instant Messenger and Hipchat.

Facebook and Instagram were down worldwide for around an hour today after an alleged attack. Hackers from the online group Lizard Squad have claimed responsibility for the attack, which took the two social media sites down at around 6am GMT.

Both sites, which have a total of 1.5billion users, appeared with error messages in the United States, Europe and Asia for around an hour. But despite hackers claiming they took the social media giants offline, Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook, which also owns Instagram, refused to say what the fault was.